blue shirt oath

Chapter 234

Bolangsha is located in Yangwu County, Kaifeng Prefecture.

Surrounded by a large stretch of rolling sand dunes, with thorns and thorns, grass and grass, the north wind sweeps the land, and the sand is overwhelming.

A carriage full of wind and dust traveled from far to near along the east-west avenue, and stopped in front of an octagonal wave pavilion beside the driveway.

In order to commemorate the shocking blow of Zhang Liang and Lishi, people built this octagonal Bolang Pavilion. It has not only become an excellent resting place for passers-by, but also a famous tourist attraction in Kaifeng Prefecture.

In winter, there are not many pedestrians on the avenue.

The Bolang Pavilion was empty, except for a student-like man in a long robe and scarf, who was carefully brushing the dust off a stone pier on the side of the pavilion and muttering to himself.

Hearing the carriage approaching, the man turned his head.

Seeing a very handsome man in green robe getting out of the car, he turned around and helped a young woman in the car get out of the car.

The three of them faced each other, and the man smiled first: "You two are also foreigners?"

The man was about 25 to [-] years old. He was dressed as a scholar, and he was thin and elegant, and he was handsome.

It's just that the single clothes on his body are hard to keep out the cold, and they are too thin in this bleak north wind.

Du Qingshan looked the man up and down for a moment, and lied without blushing:

"Brother Tai has good eyesight. The two of us came from the south of the Yangtze River. When we first arrived in Baodi, we have heard of Bolangsha's name. Today we are here to pay our respects."

"That's a coincidence. Xia Zhu said that he is also from Jiangnan." The man introduced himself enthusiastically, without any strangeness when meeting him for the first time. "By the way, haven't you asked your name yet?"

"My surname is Du, and my single name is a clear character. This is Miss Xiaochen, from Hangzhou."

The three of them greeted each other for a while, Zhu said happily: "In the winter, I traveled all the way, there are few people on the official road, and the two of you are the living people I met in the next two days. It's really fate."

He was obviously very excited, and led the two of them to Shi Hou, and said with a smile: "Look, the last sentence of Shi Hou's words makes no sense."

Song Guichen couldn't hide his curiosity, and approached Shihou.

This is a stone tablet marking the mileage. In addition to engraving "Thirty miles from the northeast to Bianzhou" on the front, there is also a line of small characters engraved:
"Avoid cheap to expensive, less to avoid strong, light to avoid heavy, go to avoid come."

Song Guichen carefully read the inscription on the inscription, pondered for a moment, and said: "The cheap avoids the expensive, the less avoids the strong, and the light avoids the heavy. These three are all human nature. It is not difficult to understand, but why should those who are leaving avoid those who come?"

Zhu said and nodded: "That's why I laughed that it didn't make sense. 'Go' refers to leaving the place to go to another place, from one side to the other, which is opposite to 'come', but here at Bolang Pavilion, what is meant by 'go'? What is meant by 'come' '? To the east is Kaifeng, to the north is Yangwu, you can say go to Kaifeng, you can also say go to Yangwu, but the direction is completely opposite, who should avoid?"

Song Guichen said with a smile: "This stone wall says 'Thirty miles from the northeast to Bianzhou', which is probably based on Bianzhou. It should be that foreigners come to Kaifeng, while locals go to Kaifeng."

"This is even more unreasonable. If this is the case, for those who come, the destination is close at hand, but for those who go, the road ahead is long. Why do those who go want to avoid it?"

Seeing that the two of them had a heated discussion, Du Qingshan couldn't help laughing and said: "Going and coming are relative concepts. If the people who refer to them choose differently, the goals of going and coming are also different. For example, A and B are walking towards each other. In other words, he is going, B is coming, and for B, he is also going, and A has become coming. With this explanation, everyone avoids each other, and avoiding coming, isn’t it advocating a style of mutual humility?"

Song Guichen and Zhu's words about repeatedly tasting Du Qingshan, although it sounds reasonable at first glance, it still doesn't stand up to scrutiny.

If you give way to each other when you are on the road, you let me and I let you, will this road still go away?

In the end, Song Guichen shook his head and laughed: "Bolangsha is famous for thousands of years, and its scenery is infinite. We put aside the beautiful scenery and didn't appreciate it, so we gathered around a monument to discuss the admonitions from above."

"Miss Xiaochen is right." Zhu said that he no longer bothered about the words on the stone tablet, and asked Du Qingshan, "I don't know why Brother Du came to Bianjing?"

"Du is preparing to take the imperial examination next year, and he came to Beijing this time for a study tour."

Hearing this, Zhu Shuo's enthusiastic face turned a little cold, as if he hated Du Qingshan's pursuit of fame.

No wonder he is like this.

Today's scientific examination is divided into three levels: township examination, general examination, and palace examination.The township examination is an examination held by various states and counties. It aims to select the outstanding candidates from the local household registration candidates and recommend them to the central government to participate in the general examination sponsored by the Ministry of Rites.

In other words, only students who pass the provincial examination are eligible to take the general examination.

Du Qingshan just said that he was going to take the scientific examination next year, but he obviously failed to take the provincial examination in his hometown to obtain the qualification to participate in the general examination.

According to Zhu Shuo's ears, Du Qingshan didn't prepare for the exam at home, but came to the capital a year in advance.

This practice is very popular among scholars nowadays, but Zhu said that he couldn't understand this kind of behavior the most, so he laughed and said:

"My little brother is very ambitious, but today is different from the past. Since Jingde four years ago, the anonymity system has been perfected day by day. I'm afraid you have wasted all this effort, and in the end it will be useless to fetch water from the bamboo basket."

He said this very bluntly, with the intention of cursing.

If others heard this, they would have been furious.

But Du Qingshan just smiled lightly: "Brother, I misunderstood. Although my ancestral home is in Changzhou Prefecture, my father's generation has already settled in Kaifeng. I can be regarded as half of Kaifeng people. Naturally, I have to go back to Kaifeng to take part in the local examination."

Zhu said he was taken aback for a moment, and then he was relieved: "So that's the case. I was the one who went too far just now. Don't blame me, little brother."

"Where, it's my younger brother who didn't make it clear." Du Qingshan smiled heartily, "Brother Zhu speaks quickly, his eyes don't tolerate grit, he is so straightforward."

The two talked for a long time, and Zhu said that he was quite surprised to see that Du Qingshan talked well and behaved like everyone else.

I also think that he claims to live in Kaifeng, and he probably is a son of a famous family in Kyoto.

Zhu said that he wanted to make friends, so he became more enthusiastic.

Hearing that Du Qingshan just said that he was going to take the scientific examination, he quoted scriptures without any hesitation, and as a person who had experienced it, he earnestly explained to Du Qingshan all kinds of precautions for studying and taking the examination.

Du Qingshan saw that he was alone, without a servant, and he didn't even have a horse for transportation. It was expected that his family was poor, but he had a beautiful heart, gorgeous poetry, and classic articles at his fingertips.

Understanding his thoughts, Du Qingshan couldn't help but smile wryly in his heart.

So he asked: "I don't know why brother Zhu came to Beijing this time?"

Zhu said with a sigh: "To tell the truth, my brother, I joined the army as the manager of the Guangde Army a month ago, in charge of litigation and prison cases. Although I am a nine-rank sesame official, I have a royal salary, so I can take care of my mother."

"Just because Wang Qinruo returned to Beijing from Hangzhou and passed through Yangzhou, I accidentally offended him. After he returned to Beijing, he dismissed me. I came to Beijing to resign."

　Zhu said that his real name was Fan Zhongyan.When Fan Zhongyan was 2 years old, his parents died and his mother remarried. Before the age of 29, his name was Zhu Shuo.After being promoted to Wen Linlang and Ren Jiqing Army Jiedu, he returned to his clan and restored his surname, and restored the name of Fan Zhongyan.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)